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Sweeping effectiveness measurement

TL;DR

Project to transform a curling broom into a measurement tool to evaluate effectiveness during sweeping in curling. An ESP32 measures the pressure exerted on two cells and an accelerometer measures the frequency of movement. The data is transmitted via BLE to a Bluetooth Web-enabled computer or smartphone.

Intro

Have you ever wondered how effective your sweeping is during a curling match? I have occasionally wondered that myself, particularly compared to the movement made by other players in the club.

Uptime Kuma e ping su traefik

Intro

Quando la propria rete casalinga inizia a crescere è comodo controllare i vari servizi/test attivi sulla rete. Uptime Kuma permette di avere un container Docker all-inclusive che permette di sorvegliare con vari metodi (ping, http(s), DNS) un sistema e di inviare notifiche in caso di problemi.

Scopo

• installare Uptime Kuma in docker
• aggiungere la configurazione di traefik
• verificare che traefik funzioni correttamente

Requisiti

I passaggi seguenti richiedono il funzionamento su un host di docker, docker-compose e trafik con https. Seguire questi passaggi per avere le informazioni necessarie.

Watch camera from secondary home in Home Assistant

I wrote a post not long time ago about managing my secondary home with Home Assistant. Thanks to component the magic is possible, but an HA update has complicated things a bit. A few days ago there was the problem that the component could no longer connect with remote instances and since always (for me) it is not possible to view remote rooms.

Remote instances connection problem

The first case can be solved by updating the component to the latest version (> 3.4 or master) and install it also in remote instances. Moreover in the remote instances you have to add 2 simple lines to the configuration:

Automatically update site created with Hugo

CMS’s like WordPress or Joomla are convenient, but they need constant updates, as regularly there are quite urgent security updates. That’s also why a year ago I went back to a static site, to be precise using Hugo. So I worry about creating the content and when I load new pages I don’t have to think what’s on the server anymore.

The disadvantage of this system is the need to have a computer to generate the site again and then upload everything on the server. GIT and Github are fantastic because once correctly configured they simplify the management of new content for Hugo websites.

Child control for Sonos speakers

TL;DR

Using an ESP32 and Home Assistant with ESPhome you can control Sonos speakers (or other media players) without smartphone application. This is my project to allow my daughter to manage the music in our home (whenever we want).

Intro

We are in the process of fixing up a house and it’s time to do some major cleaning among all the stuff we’ve accumulated. In a cleaning raid an old baby cassette recorder was discovered, unfortunately it is no longer working (I will get it working eventually). This find made us alert to the fact that our little girl can’t easily listen to music since it’s all streaming now and you need apps on your phone to listen to it. Not like it was in our day when we were young….

Secondary home management with Home Assistant

When you get caught up in smart homes you can’t stop and want to automate everything. I started with the second home in the mountains and then got caught up. In this post I want to collect my experiences in managing the second home, specifically with Home Assistant.

The big problem is that the LTE router doesn’t have a public IP address and I have to leverage a VPN to access the second home’s network from the outside.